Coaster

Looking at The Passing sign, I'm sure that it will light up. If you look closely you can see a wire dangling from the right hand side of the sign. We will have to wait and see As for the Fright nights version of the Thorpe website, it's good to see that they are doing this. Let's hope we see some theming inside the ride stations this year - there hasn't been any for a few years now.

Hasn't worked on any of my visits either. It's a shame because it looked good

I still prefer the Asylum's logo and sign to this to be honest.

Looks good

Had a quick look at the construction yesterday, coming on well Sorry, I didn't take and photos. Next time I will try to remember a camera

While it would be good to see a world's first, I don't think that it needs to have one to be a good coaster.

They weren't too bad actually - although Dragon's fury obviously had a fairly big queue given that it had been closed for a few days and in the morning. Apart from Fury, the most we queued for any ride was 30 mins - although some were almost walk on.

October is now upon us! Roll on Fright nights

The face on the website happened to me as well! But it won't come up again.

Just a quick update: - Dragon falls was open all day today. (x3) - Dragon's fury opened in the afternoon (x1)

Not very good. I'm going to Chessington today so I will write on here later telling you whether either ride re-opened today.

I have been turned away from the Asylum before due to "technical problems"

Who spotted the SW7 face?

The horror theme on Saw isn't very scary to be honest, as long as you cover your ears as soon as you walk in the building (loud shotgun effect) the rest isn't scary at all really.

The mazes depend on what scares you. Experiment 10 is definatley the scariest, if you are claustrophobic give it a miss! The other mazes are jumpy but not too scary, my favourite is Asylum. Hope this helps (Also when I went last year all queues were exactly the same as normal. (As in no one scaring you))

You can see in one of the pictures that the container simply hasn't been moved to it's final location yet. And as a heads up to everyone, I went to Thorpe yesterday and construction for Fright nights is progressing rapidly now

A very poor lineup for Hocus pocus 2012 plus the fact that the park shuts at 7 means that my last visit to Chessington this year will probably be this weekend. I enjoyed Hocus pocus last year but it's just not worth bothering really if they are going to be this stingy! And why not bring back Krypt? That was good!

Vortex looks so much nicer without the tall plants!

Oh right, I have been in Asylum many times but I couldn't remember which way you went - I just remembered it being right but I must be wrong.

Looks interesting. Something I am wondering though: I'm sure the entrance to the first corridor in Asylum has been boarded up? Didn't you used to go in and turn right at the sign which took you down a long corridor into the main room? Whereas now it looks like you turn left instead. Has anyone else noticed this or am I incorrect?

Fright nights 2011 was, in my opinion the best Fright nights the park has ever done. For reasons you have stated above I don't think this years event will be as good as last years one but I am still going to go as many times as I can!

Now that Fright nights is almost here: Thorpe park promised us that they would be improving Saw alive for Fright nights at the time that they closed it. What do people think/hope will happen to it that improves it?

The audio is a shame because when Saw first opened it was great to hear suitably creepy music with a voice often coming through the speaker warning people of what was going on inside. Now it is dull to be honest.

The trouble I find with Saw is that while some trains take the ride quite smoothly, others jolt you around very uncomfortably.

Hopefully they will get a new topscan - Samurai certainly is a good ride although it was more than a bit tired. (Unless they refurbish it again - but usually when they do that it doesn't last long.)